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'^^HH Code of Bj^-Laws of the Society of Colonial Wars in 
^^ the State of California was adopted at its First General 
Court held in the city of Los Angeles on the seventh day of 
March, 1S96. 

The untimely death of the Secretary, Harry Woodville 
Latham, has filled our hearts with sorrow that so bright a 
young life should be taken from us in the midst of his use- 
fulness. All of the work of the Society properly falling to 
the duties of his office, has been necessarily delayed, but there 
is so general a demand for copies of the By-Laws, that I have 
thought it best to have them issued at once, and not to post- 
pone their publication to an indefinite future. I therefore 
certify to the correctness of this printed copy of the By-Laws 
without waiting for the election of a Secretar37, to whom such 
an attestation more properly belongs. 

HOLDRIDGE OZRO CoLLINS, 
Los Angeles, CaL.June 15, i8g6. Governor. 



article I. 

NAME. 

'^^E Society shall be known by the name and title of 
Vi^ " Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California." 

article II. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

^Jj NY male person above the age of twenty-one 3^ears, of 
^^^ good moral character and reputation, shall be eligible 
to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars in the State 
of California, who is lineall}^ descended in the male or female 
line from an ancestor : 

(i.) Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a 
soldier, sailor or marine, or a privateersman, under authority 
of the Colonies which afterward formed the United States, 
or in the forces of Great Britain which participated with those 
of the said Colonies in any wars in which the said Colonies 
were engaged, or in which they enrolled men, from the settle- 
ment of Jamestown, May 13th, 1607, to the battle of Lexing- 
ton, April 19th, 1775; or, 

(2.) Who held office in any of the Colonies between the 
dates mentioned, either as 

(a) Director-General, Vice-Director-General, or member 
of the Council or legislative body in the Colony of New 
Netherland ; 

(b) Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy-Governor, Lord 
Proprietor, member of the King's or Governor's Council or 
legislative body in the Colonies of New York, New Jersc}^, 
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware ; 

(c) Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy-Governor, or 
member of the Council, or of the legislative body in Maryland 
and the Carolinas; 

(d) Governor, Deputy-Governor, Governor's Assistant, 
or Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, or 



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member of tlie Council, body of assistants, or legislative body 
in any of the New England Colonies. 

article III. 

OFFICERS. 

HE officers of this Society shall be a Governor, a Dep- 
uty-Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Deputy-Gov- 
ernor General, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, a His- 
torian, a Chaplain, a Chancellor and a Surgeon, who shall be 
ex officio members of the Council. 

article IV. 

GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES. 

'^'HERE shall be a Council, consisting of nine members, 
^•^ who shall be styled " Gentlemen of the Council," in ad- 
dition to the ex officio members ; a Committee on Membership, 
consisting of five members ; a Committee on Historical Docu- 
ments, consisting of three members, and a Committee on 
Entertainment, consisting of five members. 

article V. 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 

^^HE officers, together with the Gentlemen of the Council, 
^^ the delegates and alternates to the General Society, and 
members of all the Standing Committees, except the Com- 
mittee on Membership and the Deputy-Governor General, 
shall be elected by ballot at the General Court. A plurality 
vote shall elect, and said officers and committees shall hold 
office for one year, or until their successors shall be duly 
elected and qualified. 

Vacancies among the officers, or in the Council or Com- 
mittees, shall be filled for the residue of the current year at 
any meeting of the Council called for that purpose. 

Pi'ovided: That in case there shall be a vacancy in the 



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office of Governor, tlie Deputy-Governor, and in case of his 
inability to act, the Lieutenant-Governor shall thereupon suc- 
ceed to said office of Governor. 

The Deputy-Governor General shall be elected by the 
delegates to the General Societ}^ 

Hrttcle vi. 

COUNCIL. 

T\ HE Council may provide by resolution for regular meet- 
^'' ings, but it may be convened at the call of the Gov- 
ernor or Secretary, or upon the written request of three of its 
members. Five shall be a quorum for the transaction of busi- 
ness. It shall have general control and management of the 
affairs and funds of the Society, and it may appoint such 
special committees as to it may seem proper, composed wholly 
or in part of members of the Society outside of its own num- 
ber. The Council, for cause, may suspend any officer, and 
its action must be reported, in writing, to the Society for 
approval or the reverse, within thirty days thereafter. 

article VII. 

COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 

^^ HE Committee on Membership shall be chosen by the 
^*^ Gentlemen of the Council, and shall be elected for one 
year. Three members shall constitute a quorum, and a nega- 
tive vote of one member shall cause an adverse report to the 
Council upon the application of any candidate. 

The proceedings of the Committee shall be secret and 
confidential. It shall have power to elect from its members a 
Chairman and Secretary, and to establish regulations for its 
government not inconsistent with the by-laws of the Society. 

Any member failing to attend three successive meetings 
without sufficient excuse, shall be dropped from the commit- 
tee, and the Council shall fill the vacancy caused thereby. 



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article viii. 

COMMITTEE ON HISTORICAL DOCUMETNTTS. 

-^^HE Committee on Historical Documents, in connection 
Vi^ with the Historian, who shall be ex-officio chairman, may 
prepare papers on matters of interest to the Society, and sub- 
mit them to the Council. No paper shall be printed without 
the order of the Council. It shall use all possible efforts to 
secure original documents, muster-rolls and other papers or 
articles connected with the Colonial history of the country. 
It shall be empowered to correspond in the name of the 
Society with individuals, societies and governments, in the 
course of its investigations. It shall keep a record of its 
transactions. 

article IX. 

COMMITTEE ON ENTERTAINMENT. 

^T^HE Committee on Entertainment shall be the Stewards 
^^ of the Societj^'s banquets, but must present to the Gov- 
ernor a list of all speakers and invited guests for his ap- 
proval. 

They shall have power to select places for banquets, and 
to issue tickets for the same, but they shall assume no ex- 
pense without the approval of the Council. 

They shall have charge of the annual election, and shall 
install the officers elected. 

article X. 

ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 

"If^VERY application for membership shall be made in 
^^^ writing, subscribed by the applicant under oath or 
affirmation, upon blanks prescribed by the Council, and 
approved by two members of the Society over their signa- 
tures Applications shall be accompanied by proofs of eligi- 
bility, and shall be referred to the Committee on Membership, 
who shall carefully investigate the same and report their 
recommendation thereon to the Council. 



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Members may be elected at any meeting of the Council, 
but one negative vote of every five ballots cast shall cause the 
rejection of the candidate. 

A rejected candidate shall not be permitted to apply for 
membership until the lapse of one year, except by the unani- 
mous consent of the Committee on Membership and the Gen- 
tlemen of the Council. 

Payment of the membership fee and dues for the current 
year shall accompany the application. In case the candidate 
shall be rejected, the amount paid by him shall be returned. 

Membership shall be hereditary for all male descendants 
of the present members of this Society, and of those who 
may hereafter be elected, up to the limit that the Society may 
hereafter determine upon, subject to the vote of the Council 
upon the moral qualification of the person who may be an 
heir at any time to such membership. 

article XI. 

DECLARATION, 

^ijJVERY applicant for membership shall declare upon 
^^^ honor that he will use his best efforts to promote the 
purposes of the Societ}^, and will observe the Constitution 
and By-Laws of the same; and if a citizen of the United 
States, he shall declare that he will support the Constitution 
of the United States. Such declaration sliall be in writing, 
and subscribed by the applicant. 

article XII. 

RESIGNATION. DISQUALIFICATION AND EXPULSION. 

mo resignation of any member shall become effective un- 
less consented to by the Council. 
No person who has become enrolled as a member of this 
Society shall be permitted to continue in membership after 
his proofs of eligibility shall have been found to be defective. 
After six months' notice to such person to substantiate 



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his claim, and upon his failure satisfactorily so to do, the 
Council must direct the Secretary to erase his name from the 
membership roll. 

The said person shall have the right to appeal to the 
Society at its next Court or to the General Court. If the 
said appeal be sustained by a two-thirds vote of the members 
present at such Court, his name shall be restored to said 
membership roll. 

Any member, for conduct inconsistent with the character 
of a gentleman and man of honor, or for serious disloyalty 
to this Society, or for other grave cause, may be suspended 
or expelled from the Society. But no member shall be sus- 
pended or expelled unless written charges are presented 
against him. The Council, after hearing such charges, and 
giving him an opportunity to reply to them, may act by a 
two-thirds vote, and its action shall be final. The insignia of 
said member shall thereupon be returned to the Treasurer of 
the Society, and his rights therein shall be extinguished or 
suspended. The Treasurer shall refund to said member the 
amount paid for said insignia. 

article XIII. 

PURPOSES. 

BT every meeting of the Council the purposes and gen- 
■ eral welfare of the Society shall be considered, and 
measures taken to promote and secure them. No party polit- 
ical question of the day, nor existing controversial religious 
subject shall be discussed or considered in the Council, or at 
any meeting of this Society, or of any of its committees. 

article XIV. 

COMMEMORATIONS. 

^T'HE Society shall celebrate yearly some event in Colonial 
^•^ history, as a festival day, and its members shall dine 
together at least once in each year. 



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article XV. 

LOCAL SECRETARIES. 

HEN ten or more members of this Society shall be 



resident in a city or town of the State of California, 
one of their number may be appointed Local Secretary b}^ the 
Council, to hold of&ce for one year, or until his successor be 
duly appointed. Subject to the approval of the Council, a 
Local Secretary may, in conjunction with the members locally 
resident, organize a Chapter of this Society ; arrange local 
commemorations of men and events of Colonial history; hold 
annual and special meetings and elect such local officers as 
may be desired ; provided, however, that all reports and recom- 
mendations from said Local Chapter to this Society shall be 
made through said Local Secretar3^ 

article XVL 

FLAG. 

'^^HH Flag of this Society shall be Argent, a Cross of Saint 
^i^ George gules ; an escutcheon or, bordered sable, charged 
with a Grizzly Bear, passant, proper ; under the motto 
" Eureka." 

article xvn. 

INSIGNIA AND DIPLOMA. 

'^^HE Insignia and Diploma of Membership shall be those 
VU of the General Society ; provided, however, that mem- 
bers may receive a certificate of membership in this Society, 
signed by the Governor, Registrar and Secretary, in such 
form as may be prescribed by the Council 

article xviiL 

SEAL. 

■^T^HE Great Seal of this society shall be : Within a beaded 

^■^ annulet a title scroll; Society of Colonial Wars in the 

State of California 1642-1775 surrounding a group of Colo- 



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nial weapons ; over all a shield, Quarterly, I and IV ; Gules 
a tower triple-towered or. (Castile). II and III ; Argent a lion 
rampant gules, crowned or. (Leon). Upon a chief of the last 
a grizzly bear, passant proper. (California). 

article XIX. 

COURTS. 

-^HK General Court of the Society shall be held on "Fore- 
VU fathers' Day," the twenty-first day of December in each 
year. 

Should said date fall on a Sunday, then the General Court 
shall be held on the following Monday. 

Special Courts may be called by the Governor at such 
times as in his opinion the interests of the Society may de- 
mand, and they must be called by the Secretary, by direction 
of the Council, or upon the written request of nine members. 

The notice for the holding of the General Court shall 
be given as is provided by law for the notice of annual meet- 
ings of corporations in the State of California. 

All notices of Special Courts shall be sent out at least 
twenty days before the date of such Courts. 

Ten members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum 
for the transaction of business, and in all cases, except the 
amendment of the By-Laws, a majority of those present, or 
represented by proxy shall constitute a vote. 

article XX. 

PROXIES AND CUMULATIVE VOTING. 

HNY member who is unable to be present at a General or 
Special Court of this Society may, nevertheless, have 
his vote counted, having first duly authorized, in writing, a 
member to act as his proxy thereat. 

In all elections of officers, cumulative voting shall be 
lawful. 



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article XXL 

ANCESTRAL RECORD. 

■ifJVERY member who shall present to the Registrar, duly 
'^^ verified before an officer authorized by law to adminis- 
ter an oath, a statement in writing, containing the particu- 
lars of his marriage, and the names and dates of the birth of 
his children, and such facts concerning his life and ancestry, 
and the ancestry of his wife, as he may desire to have per- 
petuated, shall be entitled to have the same filed among the 
archives, and spread at large upon the records of the Registrar 
of this Society. 

article XXII. 

ADDRESSES OF MEMBERS. 

O" T shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secre- 
\J tary, by written communication, of his place of resi- 
dence, and of any change thereof, and of his postoffice address. 
Service of any notice under the By-Laws on any member, 
addressed to his last residence or postoffice address, forwarded 
by mail, shall be sufficient service of notice. 

article XXIII. 

DECEASE OF MEMBERS. 

7tl PON the death of any member, notice thereof, and of the 
VrV time and place of the funeral, shall be sent by the 
Secretary to every member residing in the county of the de- 
ceased member, and thereupon it shall become the duty of 
members, if practicable, to attend the obsequies. 

Upon the information of the decease of a member, the 
Governor shall appoint from the Society four members as a 
Committee to represent the Society at the funeral. 

Any member who becomes aware of the death of a fellow 
member, shall immediately notify the Secretary of the fact. 



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article XXIV. 

FEES AND DUES. 

'^T^HK initiation fee shall be ten dollars. The annual dues 
VU shall be five dollars, payable between the first days of 
January and March of each year, after which latter date mem- 
bers who have not paid will be debarred from voting at the 
meetings of the Society ; provided^ that any member elected 
during the last three months of the year shall not be required 
to pay the annual dues for the year next ensuing. The pay- 
ment at any one time of fifty dollars, in addition to the initia- 
tion fee, shall constitute life membership, such payment being 
in lieu of all annual dues. When the number of life mem- 
bers shall reach one hundred, the fee for life membership 
thereafter shall be one hundred dollars. 

Any of the Charter members of this Society who, on the 
30th day of November, 1895, was a member of another State 
Societ}^, and who shall desire to retain his older membership, is 
hereb}^ declared to be a member of this Society, with power 
to vote at any of its meetings, and eligible to any of its 
ofi&ces, and he shall be exempt from the payment of annual 
dues so long as he shall retain his membership in his former 
Society, and pay annual dues therein. 

Any member who may contribute two hundred and fifty 
dollars to the " Permanent Fun:l " of the Societ3^, shall be 
exempt from payment of all annual dues, and this exemption 
shall extend in perpetuity to his lineal successors in member- 
ship from the same propositus, one at a time, who shall be se- 
lected for such exemption by the Society, said perpetual mem- 
bership to be transmitted by the holder subject to the ap- 
proval of the Council. 

The Council shall have the power to drop from the roll 
the name of any member who shall be at least two years in 
arrears for dues, and shall fail on proper notice to pay the 
same within sixty days ; and on being dropped his member- 



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ship shall cease, but he may be restored to membership at any 
time by the Council upon his written application and the pay- 
ment of all arrears to the date of his restoration. 

Hrttcle XXV. 

PERMANENT FUND. 

^T^HKRE shall be a " Permanent Fund," to be derived from 
VU all Life Membership fees and contributions, to remain 
forever for the use of the Society, the income only of which 
shall be expended. 

article xxvi. 

GOVERNOR. 

^^HE Governor, or in his absence the Deputy-Governor or 
Vi^ Lieutenant-Governor, or a Chairman pro te7npore^ shall 
preside at all Courts of the Society, and shall exercise the 
duties of a presiding of&cer, under parliamentary rules, sub- 
ject to an appeal to the Society. He shall be a member ex 
ojficio of all Committees, except Nominating Committees, 
and the Committee on Membership. 

The Governor shall shall have power to convene the 
Council at his discretion. 

article xxviL 

SECRETARY. 

^^HE Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence 
Vi^ of the Society, and keep a record thereof. He shall 
notify all persons elected to membership in the Society, and 
shall perform such other duties as the Society or his office 
may require. He shall have charge of the seal, certificates of 
incorporation, books, by-laws, historical and other documents 
and records of the Society, other than those required to be 
deposited with the Registrar. He shall notify the Registrar 
of all admissions to membership. He shall certif}^ all acts of 
the Society and, when required, authenticate them under seal. 



He shall have charge of the printing and of publications 
issued by the Society. He shall give due notice of the time 
and place of holding all Courts of the Society and of the 
meetings of the Council. He shall be ex officio Secretary of 
the Council, and he shall keep a full and complete record of 
all the proceedings and orders of the Society and of the Coun- 
cil. In his absence from any meeting a Secretary pro tempore 
may be designated therefor. 

The Secretar}^ may be paid a salary at the discretion of 
the Council. 

Hrticle xxvni. 

TREASURER. 

^*'HE Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and secur- 
^*^ ities of the Society. The money of the Society shall be 
deposited in some bank in the city of residence of the Treas- 
urer to the credit of the " Society of Colonial Wars in the 
State of California," and such money shall be drawn thence 
on the checks of the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society 
only. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and pay- 
ments, and at each annual meeting render the same to the 
Society. 

For the faithful performance of his duty he may be 
required to give such security as the Council deems proper. 

article XXIX. 

HISTORIAN. 

^T^HB Historian shall keep a detailed record of all historical 
^» and commemorative celebrations of the Society, and 
shall edit and prepare for publication such historical addresses, 
papers and other documents as the Council may see proper to 
publish. 

He shall also prepare a necrological list for the year, with 
biographies of deceased members, and cause the same to be 
printed in an appropriate form, by direction of the Council. 



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article XXX. 

RESISTRAR. 

Y'r HE Registrar shall receive and file all the proofs upon 
^*^ which membership or supplemental ancestral record has 
been granted, and record a short abstract thereof. He shall 
make a record of all diplomas countersigned by him, and of 
all documents which the Society may obtain ; and, under the 
direction of the Council, he shall make copies of such papers 
as the owners may not be willing to have in the keeping of 
the Society. 

article XXXI. 

CHANCELLOR 

^^HE Chancellor shall be a lawyer, dul}^ admitted to the 
^"^ bar, and it shall be his duty to give legal opinions on 
matters affecting the Society when demanded by proper au- 
thority. 

article XXXII. 



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SURGEON. 

HE Surgeon shall be a practicing physician. 

article XXXIII. 

CHAPLAIN. 

HE Chaplain shall be an ordained minister of a Christian 
church, and it shall be his duty to officiate when called 
upon by the proper officers. 

article XXXIV. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

'£V HE General and Special Courts of the Society shall be 
^■^ conducted according to parliamentar}'- law, and the fol- 
lowing order of business shall be followed so far the same may 
be applicable : 



Calling the Court to order by the Governor. 

Prayer by the Chaplain. 

Reading of the record of prior Courts not acted upon. 

Reports from Officers, Council and Committees. 

Unfinished business. 

New business. 

Elections. 

Benediction by the Chaplain. 



article XXXV. 

AMENDMENTS' 

*fMO alteration or amendment of these by-laws shall be 
^ made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writ- 
ing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a General 
or Special Court of the Society, nor unless the same shall be 
adopted at a subsequent Court, held at least thirty days after 
such notice, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 














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